GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND, the Prime Minister, is a Postmodern Green Neosocialist Philogynic Philosopher-Queen. But just call her Gro

It had been a long day of campaigning, and the Prime Minister had a cold. Wrapped in a violet overcoat, she leafed through stump speeches as the 1953 Convair turboprop plane bounced around over the stubby mountains of the Norwegian coastline.

Toward the back of the plane, one of the press photographers was sliding lower in his seat, clutching his stomach, turning gray. His worried colleagues were at a loss to help him until someone remembered there was a doctor on board -- and summoned the Prime Minister.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland dropped her paperwork, moved to the back of the...